Wasn’t going to post tonight, but right now I’m pissed. And afraid to speak out about it, and pissed that there’s any reason to be afraid. I love Felicia Day. She’s a role model, not just for geeks and gaming, but just for a person like me, who yes happens to be a geek, but also just happens to be a women who wants to embrace who she is and shine as herself. I’m endlessly fascinated by her talent, her creativity, her passion, and her acceptance of who she is. Not to mention her ability to find time and opportunity to experience so many of the different things she’s interested in. She has always appeared to be to be intelligent and genuine in what she does. I about peed my pants when she was cast on Supernatural. The pairing of my favorite role model and my favorite TV show??? NOTHING COULD BE GREATER.

And now? She’s being attacked, threatened. Like many other women in her industry right now. And it’s not with criticism, valid or otherwise. We’re talking rampant rape and death threats made to her and others. It makes me sick. What is wrong with these people?

“I haven’t been able to stomach the risk of being afraid to get out of my car in my own driveway because I’ve expressed an opinion that someone on the internet didn’t agree with.

HOW SICK IS THAT?

I have allowed a handful of anonymous people censor me. They have forced me, out of fear, into seeing myself a potential victim.

And that makes me loathe not THEM, but MYSELF….

…I have lived a large part of my life ruled by negative emotions, mainly fear and anxiety. From my experience of working through those issues, I have this to say: Steeping yourself in the emotions that you’re surrounding yourself with, of hatred and bile and contempt, is ultimately not destructive to others like you want it to be. It’s destructive to yourself. “

It’s not hard to see why I read those words and get affected. Of course I understand them. And that just makes me take it even more personally.

I’m not a gamer, so I can’t comment on the main issue surrounding all of this. And I realize these kinds of threats are nothing new to the world, obviously- it’s why most of us are writing here. But I don’t give a shit what the cause is, people who make these kinds of threats should take a left and head straight down to hell. Right fucking now.

Felicia Day, I think you’re the awesomest awesome to ever awesome and I hope this passes sooner than later.

"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is, 'God is crying', and if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is, 'Probably because of something you did'." ~ Jack Handey